Baltic Cinema: Jarman Award Tour 2025
Dirs. Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah; Karimah Ashadu; Onyeka Igwe; Morgan Quaintance; George Finlay Ramsay and Hope Strickland
English and Arabic with English subtitles | Digital video
Baltic Cinema: Jarman Award Tour 2025
Wed 19 November | 18:30
£6 Full price / £4 Students, under 18s, unwaged and 65+
A chance to see some of the best new artists’ moving image from the UK, with films by artists shortlisted for this year’s Film London Jarman Award.
The artists shortlisted this year are Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, Karimah Ashadu, Onyeka Igwe, Morgan Quaintance, George Finlay Ramsay and Hope Strickland.
Inspired by visionary British filmmaker Derek Jarman, the award recognises and supports artists working with the moving image. This year’s shortlist embodies the sense of experiment and adventure within that artists’ moving image can offer — an unbroken link between the creativity of the earliest days of cinema and the boundaries of the medium today.
The winner of the Film London Jarman Award will be announced on 25 November and be awarded a £10,000 prize. The award is presented in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery.
About the films
Informed by interviews with first-generation migrants living in London, Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah’s I Carry It With Me Everywhere (2022) looks at the timeless search for home and belonging amongst an environment of displacement.
In Machine Boys (2024), Karimah Ashadu enters the underground community of motorbike taxi drivers, a forbidden practice in Lagos, and delivers a visceral portrait of masculinity and precarious labour in Nigeria’s patriarchal culture.
Elsewhere Onyeka Igwe’s archival collage film The Miracle on George Green (2022) presents a picture of the protests and collective resistance to the building of the M11 link road in Hackney, expanding out to consider global histories of protest.
Morgan Quaintance’s Repetitions (2022) dissects formal elements of film in a heightened sequence of flickering images and sound loops which speak to social histories of industrial and physical labour.
Hope Strickland’s a river holds a perfect memory (2024) meanders gently across waterways in Jamaica, from a leisurely raft on the Martha Brae River to a night-time boat trip in Falmouth’s bioluminescent lagoon. Shifting focus to the impact of industry on the waters of northern England, the film uses water to explore the entanglement of these supposedly disparate communities.
Shot in a 16th Century manor house in the South Downs, George Finlay Ramsay’s 16mm film Nursted, from the sleep side (2023) takes us through the dark corridors and dusty shelves of the former home of two bohemian artists, reflecting on its history as it falls into disrepair and the fading memories of its inhabitants.
Baltic Cinema
Baltic Cinema is a new year-round cinema programme at Baltic, lighting up our Level 1 Cinema with the best new and archive films. Bringing otherwise rarely-screened work to the North East, Baltic Cinema also expands our exhibitions, offering a chance to explore further some of the themes they raise.
Baltic Cinema has five strands:
Currents presents new work from across the world
Sources expands on our exhibitions
Selected shows films selected by our artists and partners
Quayside Kino is a monthly screening for families and children
News From Home offers films on and from the North East, for the people who live here
All regular screenings take place in our Level 1 Cinema. In addition, you can catch free drop-in films in Front Room every week from September.
Baltic Cinema is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.
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